Will Self: The novel is definitely dead this time
Writing for The Guardian, Will Self asserts the imminent marginalization of the novel in a piece called “The novel is dead (this time it’s for real).” “Here we go again,”… Read more »
Classicist says quote of Virgil’s inscribed on 9/11 Memorial is “shockingly inappropriate”
Next month the National September 11 Memorial Museum will open. On a bare concrete wall that separates visitors from a repository holding the unidentified remains of victims of the September… Read more »
The illustrated Finnegans Wake may make more sense than the original
If you’re the type of reader who thoroughly enjoys trudging through long, dense experimental novels of the high-, post-, or just plain modernist era, you’re in luck: The Folio Society… Read more »
Saudi Arabian book fair removes “blasphemous” works by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish
The works of revered Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, have been removed from the Riyadh International Book Fair in Saudi Arabia after objections to the “blasphemous” nature of… Read more »
Should JK Rowling quit writing?
If British crime novelist Lynn Shepherd has learned anything from a piece she wrote for the Huffington Post titled, ever so subtly, “If JK Rowling Cares About Writing, She Should… Read more »